Offline Dashboard Backup and Restore

[PhilipDAth]

You had better sit down before I tell you this.

I've managed to write a script to about 75% backup a Meraki Dashboard configuration to a file, and then restore the environment.

http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/meraki-backup.html

[Uberseehandel]

Philip

This looks really useful, do let me know if you need me to test anything.

Robin

[ww]

is think this should not be in there?

del mySNMP['v2CommunityString']
del mySNMP['hostname']
del mySNMP['port']

[PhilipDAth]

@ww the Dashboard API does not let you configure those settings, only retrieve them - so yes, I have to delete them otherwise the update call fails.

[MilesMeraki]

Nice work @PhilipDAth! I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if Meraki added a roll-back feature within dashboard natively. I.e You'd make a change to some configuration apply the change, you'd then have a ten minute period to be able to roll back in the case of causing any unforeseen problems. 

[Gumby]

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@MilesMeraki wrote:

Nice work @PhilipDAth! I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if Meraki added a roll-back feature within dashboard natively. I.e You'd make a change to some configuration apply the change, you'd then have a ten minute period to be able to roll back in the case of causing any unforeseen problems. 

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The one thing I miss from Cisco IOS is the reload in command.  Have an option to send config changes and if you don't send a command to approve them in a timeframe restart on the old config.  Nothing worse than accidentally locking yourself out of something at remote site.

[Mr_IT_Guy]

This is awesome! I'll give it a whirl later on in the day.

[NFL0NR]

Now that's some good work.  Great job @PhilipDAth